French banks

For earn money you will need a bank account in France. Normally there is a little problem with the papers to have one, because sometimes you have the trouble that for rent a house or an apartment they ask you for a job contract and for a job contract you need an account, so you need to do something before. Some people reject cash money so it is necessary.

But in most of cases if you are spanish there is not a lot of problems. If you put some spanish goods as guarantees you could create an account easily. If you are in a house as a guest you can put as that in the account. If you have some friends or some family there it will be easier.

In addition most of the banka give some benefits to students and young people because all the banks in France charge comissions than could arrive to 2 euros. If you are foreign the banks could offer you a card debit by default but if not you need to pay an extra for htis service. For receive and pay money it is very used bank check and it is provided by the bank when you open a bank account. It is so used than there is people who pay by bank check to shop even for quantities which are less than 10 euros.

Office timetalbes use to be since 8 to 19 hours and saturdays until 12 hours.

The more important banks are the nexts :

Credite Agricole

Is one of the banks more importants and the fusion with different banks. It is the second group of minority bank of Europe.

Banque Populaire y Caisse d´épargne

Is one of the groups with more agencies in France and has about 20 different regional banks. It has about 8 million of clients.

Banque Postale

It is one of the more popular banks in France.

BNP Paribas

It is a bank very popular in the international sphere. It has record of daily operations.

Credit du Nord

It is lighter than the others and it is composed by 8 regional banks.